Test driven developer that iterates rapidly on well defined feedback cycles. Experienced with backend application development, event based architecture, connection management and developer operations.

2022 — NowOktaStaff Software Engineer

2022 — Now

Technical Lead - User Management for Auth0

Improved team capacity by creating process and supporting distribution of projects to engineers.

Reduced support rotation overhead by identifying, advocating and devising solutions to complex issues.

Lead projects from zero to general release, providing capabilities used by thousands of customers and millions of users.

Fixed scaling issues while reducing cost by providing greenfield instrumentation for serverless architecture.

2021 — 2022BrightAIStaff Software Engineer

2021 — 2022

Designed, developed and maintained services deployed to AWS ECS and EKS

Distributed activity monitoring for connected devices

Defined communication interface for device communication

Lead and participated in technical documentation reviews

Worked with product to define requirements for platform components

2019 — 2021SmartThingsStaff Software Engineer

2019 — 2021

Minneapolis

◦ Designed and implemented services to handle next generation of hub device connectivity

◦ Improved monitoring, tooling and test coverage of the SmartThings ecosystem

◦ Worked with external teams to develop architecture and product facing documentation

◦ Helped grow team through mentorship, documentation, onboarding and presentations

◦ Expanded functionality distributed to SmartThings Edge

2018 — 2019SmartThingsSenior Software Engineer

2018 — 2019

◦ Created microservices to facilitate migration off of the monolith

◦ Optimized hub command delivery handling improving scalability and resiliency

◦ Patched security holes in hub emitted message handling

◦ Improved modeling of Zigbee and Z-Wave specifications

2017 — 2018SmartThingsSoftware Engineer

2017 — 2018

◦ Optimized marketplace backend handling significantly decreasing load time

◦ Patched security holes in sandbox exposed APIs for file storage

◦ Maintained monolith

Education

2018 — 2023

Georgia Institute of Technology

Master of Science - MS

2018 — 2023

2011 — 2015

Bethel University

Bachelor of Science

2011 — 2015

Bethel University

Bachelor of Arts

2011 — 2015

2008 — 2012

Apollo Senior High School

High School Diploma

2008 — 2012

Experience+

Education

Master of Science - MS

Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Arts

High School Diploma